Carmen Miranda
Acting Born Feb 9, 1909 Marco de Canaveses, Portugal 24 credits
Biography
Maria do Carmo Miranda da Cunha GOIH • OMC (Marco de Canaveses, February 9, 1909 – Beverly Hills, August 5, 1955), known professionally as Carmen Miranda, was a Portuguese-born Brazilian singer, dancer, and actress who attained fame in Brazil and the US in the 1930s. Best known to American audiences as "the lady in the tutti-frutti hat" due to her signature headdresses made of fruits, she was the first South American honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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Full filmography
- What's My Line? (1950) as Self
- The Ed Sullivan Show (1948) as Self
- The Colgate Comedy Hour (1950) as Self
- Legends (2006) as Self (archive footage)
- The Jimmy Durante Show (1954) as Self
- Greenwich Village (1944) as Princess Querida O'Toole
- That's Entertainment! (1974) as (archive footage) (uncredited)
- The Gang's All Here (1943) as Dorita
- A Date with Judy (1948) as Rosita Cochellas
- That's Entertainment! III (1994) as (archive footage)
- Copacabana (1947) as Carmen Novarro / Mlle. Fifi
- Salsa (1976) as (archive footage)
- Aurora Miranda - A Irmã Notável de Carmen (2002)
- Brasileiros em Hollywood (1970) as Self (archive footage)
- Scared Stiff (1953) as Carmelita Castinha
- Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas (2026) as Dorita (archive footage) (uncredited)
- The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latino Image in American Cinema (2002)
- That Night in Rio (1941) as Carmen
- Estudantes (1935) as Mimi
- It's All True (1993) as Self
- Vito (2011) as Self (archive)
- Down Argentine Way (1940) as Herself
- Showbiz Goes to War (1982) as (archive footage)
- Hooray for Hollywood (1976) as Self (archive footage)